The Virginia primary is on February 12. Someone asked me who I was for and I didn’t know what to say. Some of the candidates have good qualities, but all of them–in my humble opinion–have flaws. The question now is how to balance all of this out. I’ve got two weeks to decide. I am totally open to persuasion. You readers always help me think through things, so I’m appealing to you now. Whom should I vote for and why?

The Politically-Correct contortionist award goes to the British government for its Orwellian scheme of relabling Islamic terrorism “anti-Islamic activity.” Let’s let Canadian hate-speech defendant Mark Steyn tell about it:

My favorite headline of the year so far comes from The Daily Mail in Britain: “Government Renames Islamic Terrorism As ‘Anti-Islamic Activity’ To Woo Muslims.”

Her Majesty’s government is not alone in feeling it’s not always helpful to link Islam and the, ah, various unpleasantnesses with suicide bombers and whatnot. Even in his cowboy Crusader heyday, President Bush liked to cool down the crowd with a lot of religion-of-peace stuff. But the British have now decided that kind of mealy-mouthed “respect” is no longer sufficient. So, henceforth, any terrorism perpetrated by persons of an Islamic persuasion will be designated “anti-Islamic activity” Britain’s home secretary, Jacqui Smith, unveiled the new brand name in a speech a few days ago. “There is nothing Islamic about the wish to terrorize, nothing Islamic about plotting murder, pain and grief,” she told her audience. “Indeed, if anything, these actions are anti-Islamic.”

Steyn observes that during the Blitz no one called the Luftwaffe airstrikes “anti-German activity.” So will England label the surge in Iraq “pro-Islamic activity” or “anti-American activity”?

Barack Obama, in my opinion, has a credible profession of faith. (See the post on that interview with Christianity Today a few days ago.) This is confirmed by the Christian network on Capitol Hill. But the church he goes to is off the wall with its liberation theology. See this account of the congregation.